What Is a Conscious Discipline C.A.R.E. Room & How is it Different From a Traditional I.S.S. Room?

0:01 hello so glad you could come and visit ridgew Elementary's Care Room care stands for calming and recovering environment my name is Rob laam and I run the car room my badge says that I'm ISS but that is the last thing that I do here in this room there is safety there's laughter there's creativity there's music there's relationships and there's love we teach missing skills and how to regulate emotions and when I say we I'm talking about myself our

0:31 principal Dr Tyler Shannon our assistant principal Mrs Heather Buckman and our school and class family we teach using conscious discipline techniques books the calming station The Time Machine and of course the feeling buddies but we also use puppets we use roleplay we use dance we use art we use drumming this room is for healing and the teaching of missing skills and and building relationships we do this by doing many

1:04 proactive breaks throughout the day with students who we know are easily triggered get stressed and overwhelmed easily when the student comes to their scheduled time they take a short five minute break and and during this five minute break they go to one of our break stations and they can do puzzles 12 to 24 pieces because we want it done in five to 10 minutes and then they get the satisfaction and just the inner internal pride of doing something completing

1:31 something we use kinetic sand therapet bubbles for controlled breathing books playing cards and coloring sheets but absolutely no technology we want them to develop their own creative mind increase their focus slow their breath down and develop a better fine motor skill and to also find out the Rhythm that they have in in their life and in their mind if a

2:03 student has to come reactively we use Dr Bailey's five steps to regulation this helps the student regulate helps the student process and becomes a part of fixing the problem and learning the missing skills